Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Water, passion fruit and women's stories.

1. After a night of heavy rain, the water pools, stained brown by leaf mulch, in every dip, ditch and hollow on the common.

2. Bettany has suddenly gone off passion fruit, and at the bottom of the fruit bowl, there is one left, deeply wrinkled and very sweet and ripe.

3. I have Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes and I can feel the pieces of the Trojan war narrative clicking together as they never have before.

Busy dog, tester and it's now.

1. On the lower cricket ground a biscuit-coloured terrier is running back and forth, circling, sniffing, running again. 2. In the chemist, I...